Improvement in lamp-burners



P.BAKER.

Improvement in Lamp 'Burners.'

. Patented Feb. 6,1872.

Q TY'IATES FFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,376, dated February6, 1872; antedated January 24, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILANDER BAKER, of Ansonia, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inLamp-Burners; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnec tion with the accompanying drawing and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification andrepresents, in-

Figure 1, a side view; Fig. 2, a top view of the burner with the coneremoved; Fig. 3, a top view of the cone; and in Fig. 4, a verticalcentral section.

This invention relates to an improvement in burners for kerosene andsimilar lamps and the invention consists in the arrangement upon thedeflector of internal springs for the support of the chimney, the saidsprings extending outside the chimney and torming a device for securingthe deflector upon the burner.

A is the screw-socket, within which are arranged several tubes, B, (hererepresented as four,) as seen in Fig. 2, each of the said tubes beingprovided with an independent adjuster, C. Between the said tubes acentral tube, D, is arranged, through which openings (1 (more or less innumber) communicate with the atmosphere below the perforated disk orbase E, as seenin Fig. 4, to which said disk the screw-socket maybefixed. These openings dpermita flow of air between the several tubes tothe flame, to aid in combustion. The deflector F is similar in form tothat of common burners, ex-

cept, instead of the common central slit, I arrange radial slitscorresponding to the tubes B, so that when the deflector is set over thesaid tubes and the wick lighted the flames will pass through theirrespective slits, and, spreading above the dome, will combine into onelarge flame, the central tube D supplying sufficient air to prevent thecombined flame from smoking in the center.

To secure the chimney and deflector to the base, I arrange two springs,L L, upon opposite sides, fixed to the deflector, and so as to bearoutward against the chimney from the inside, and thus secure the chimneyin place. These springs I extend up from Z to aid in the support of thechimney, and from that point turned down and curved inward, as in Fig.4, to catch under the base E, the elongationL of the spring giving anincreased elasticity. To govern the proper position of the deflector,the lower ends of the springs are slotted, as in Fig. 5, to set over theadjusting-rods, as in Fig. 1.

I claim as my invention The springs L, arranged upon the deflector tosupport'the chimney from the inside, and extending down, and constructedas described, to secure and retain the deflector in its proper relativeposition, substantiallyin the manner described.

PHILANDER BAKER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY, A. J. Tnsnrrs.

